Update: A renowned latest York Times investigative reporter thinks British cryptographer is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, said cryptographer says no

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Subscribe to our newsletter Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous name of the inventor of bitcoin, has never been publicly unveiled.

The New York Times believes it may have finally nailed the right guy, but said guy says it's not him.In a video report from the New York Times, investigative reporter John Carreyrou argues it is British cryptographer Adam Back.

A member of the cryptography group Cypherpunks, CEO of blockchain company Block Stream, and inventor of Hashcash, Back is fairly well-known in the crypto scene.The first bit of evidence is a nitpick of grammar.

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Carreyrou says both Back and Nakamoto are "pathologically incapable of using hyphens correctly" and that "they tended to hyphenate compound nouns, which you're not supposed to do, and to not hyphenate compound adjectives, which you are supposed to do." He also notes that, in a Cypherpunks list back in 2004, Back uses the term 'partial pre-image', and Nakamoto appears to have used that same phrase in 2008 ## Editor's Note We'll have to wait and see how this plays out in the coming weeks. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/a-renowned-new-york-times-investigative-reporter-thinks-british-cryptographer-is-bitcoin-creator-satoshi-nakamoto-said-cryptographer-says-no/)